This week’s big question: was Boris murdered or did he do it to himself? My
view is that he was definitely the victim of foul play. After all, I
witnessed it myself, first on Sunday morning and then, along with thousands
of others, on YouTube:

Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, ambushed by Eddie Mair, standing in for Andrew
Marr on Sunday.

The background to the pasting was a Michael Cockerell documentary about
Johnson, broadcast on Monday on BBC2. Pressed to the point of embarrassment
as to whether he might one day want to be prime minister, Johnson gave it
his